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Canadian municipalities are finding themselves on opposite sides of an odd debate: whether to change the sound used to help the visually impaired safely cross the street. The reason for the proposed changed? The chirping sound that has become commonplace at crosswalks from coast to coast sounds too much like the northern cardinal. A report […]

Poor James Clapper. No one bothered to give the U.S. Director of National Intelligence a teensy little news tip on Monday that 12 suspected terrorists in London were sent to the slammer. You can’t really blame him – he’s a busy guy: his hands were full with military and political developments on the Korean Peninsula, […]

An inmate is charged with two counts of attempted murder after he allegedly attacked police and correctional officers with a roof hammer at a Toronto detention centre on Saturday morning. Upon arriving at Toronto West Detention Centre at 9 a.m, 27-year-old inmate Russell Crowe allegedly unveiled a roof hammer from underneath his clothes and began […]

In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue. Today: The recent flight delays caused by bad weather conditions in Europe have stranded thousands of travellers. Why can’t the airports handle winter weather? The Post’s Jeanne Armstrong untangles the debacle. Q. Montreal gets snow and nobody […]

Get your binoculars ready and gather ’round the moonlight – if you can stay up late enough. A lunar eclipse is expected to light up the sky early Tuesday morning. What’s so special about another lunar eclipse, you might ask? We’ve got you covered. What is a lunar eclipse and what does it mean? A […]

Toronto police sex crimes unit is investigating after a young woman was allegedly sexually assaulted early Saturday morning in a car containing four men. The victim, who police say is in her late teens, left a bar near Parliament Street and Mill Street and entered a vehicle with four men, all described as 20-21 years […]

A single-vehicle crash left two men dead on Monday morning on Queen Elizabeth Way in Oakville. Just after 6 a.m., a Honda Civic travelling eastbound entered a ditch off the QEW and hit a light post, according to Burlington Ontario Provincial Police. The men were pronounced dead when police arrived. Sergeant Dave Woodford of the […]

Driving past Brooklin United Church in Whitby, Ont. this week, one might wonder why there are only two Wise Men included in the Nativity scene outside. It’s not because the church forgot one or misplaced it. One of the wooden cut-outs of the men who, according to the old Christmas story, gave gifts of gold, […]

A man wanted in connection to hit-and-run that killed a York University student incident last November was charged with second-degree murder Tuesday afternoon by Toronto Police. Twenty-six-year-old Naveen Ariaratnam was arrested at Pearson International Airport upon arriving in Toronto on a 12:15 p.m flight from Sri Lanka. Mr. Ariaratnam, of no fixed address, is the […]

York University student Emilie Brenning is settling back into her residence room Tuesday at the school’s Keele campus, following a utilities building fire on Monday afternoon that forced the school to shut down. “I’m very tired,” she said, but glad to be back on schedule. The first-year English lit major is one of many evacuated […]